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1. Re: Media SERVER Ideas Required
John T Smith Aug 8, 2012 8:51 AM (in response to Studio North Films)You will be able to use a server as a file repository, but from what I have read before (see below) PPro does not work to "directly" edit files on a server
Win Server is NOT supported http://forums.adobe.com/thread/851602
Not in a Network environment http://forums.adobe.com/thread/771151
-a work around, of sorts http://forums.adobe.com/thread/957523
-and not on a "domain" http://forums.adobe.com/thread/858977
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2. Re: Media SERVER Ideas Required
ECBowen Aug 8, 2012 9:27 AM (in response to Studio North Films)The SAS Expanders allow you to take 8 SAS channels that a standard SAS raid card supports and expand those to support far more devices. This is how you are able to daisy chain multiple SAS storage boxes to 1 SAS raid controller or multiple devices beyond 8 internally to a SAS raid controller. Oh and look at 10Gb Ethernet instead of Infiniband. The controllers are cheaper and cabling Cat 6A or Cat 7. Intel makes a Dual Port 10GBASE-T card that is cheap for 10Gb and you could run ISCSI to the server. The 10Gbit Ethernet switches should start coming down into the small business/consumer level next year. I heard rumors it would be this year but to many companies are still trying to get premium pricing/profit from Fiber to switch yet.
Eric
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3. Re: Media SERVER Ideas Required
Studio North Films Aug 15, 2012 3:55 PM (in response to ECBowen)Hi,
Eric
Thanks for the Info, do you feel that 10Gbit will be fast enough ??? for what I want todo. I am not in a hurry and am open minded for any other solutions.
Baz
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4. Re: Media SERVER Ideas Required
SimonHy Aug 15, 2012 6:23 PM (in response to Studio North Films)It can be done. We have two linux servers with a total of four ZFS raids and some large SSD drives for caching, connecting to 3 to 4 edit suites at a time via nfs, and edit fine off them via gigabit ethernet. All HD material; ProRes, h264, avchd, XDCAM HD422 etc. Each of our edit suites has an fast internal raid that to use as a scratch disc, but the media all stays on the server. There was a bit of trouble shooting to get it all set up right but everything all now works great.
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5. Re: Media SERVER Ideas Required
ECBowen Aug 16, 2012 8:32 AM (in response to Studio North Films)10Gbit is 1.25GB of total bandwidth per channel. That is more than enough for any editing out right now. You can run with Quad Gbit cards which are cheaper and require less expensive switches then bridge them for load balancing. However the 10Gbit will be the standard used in the future when the price of 10Gbit Switches come down. Until then you could just direct connect the systems to the storage via a couple 10Gbit Ethernet cards. That is up to you. The only downside to editing over a network is latency on starting playback and scrubbing. You can offset some of that by using protocols that have less layers like ISCSI along with low latency switches.
Eric
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